... Worse yet, I have discovered something troubling about the way I handle inflation. I am failing to save and invest as much as I did just a year ago. After all, I have to heat my house, feed my family and drive my car. So in the crunch of daily life, I am not doing enough to protect my financial future. Like a lot of my friends, I find myself thinking, “Well, I’ll just cut back, tighten my belt a notch, spend less on unnecessary items, and get through this period.” That might keep me a step or two ahead of my monthly cash flow. But meanwhile, dollars are disappearing like sand through my fingers - dollars that I should be investing. That is not wise. My friends, unless we find a way to catch some of those dollars and hold onto them, inflation has the potential to do great financial damage to us. We could all retire with a lot less accumulated wealth than we had planned for. I don’t have all the solutions to this problem. None of us does. Yet I do know one strategy that can really h